Well hello everyone, i have been m. i .a. from here for quite awhile i know. i have been dealing with a couple of health issues the last few months. Nothing serious but just plain nagging if you know what I mean. I have been playing a little golf out here in sunny northern California. The weather has been great. Two rain storms in 5 months. But we do need the water.
Anyways I just wanted to check in with everyone and will try not to be a stranger like I have been. Hips i found this you tube video on the courses at Bandon Dunes. check it out everyone. If there ever was a place that was meant to have links style golf on this planet , This is it. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBllzumg ... re=related


Check out this guy in one of Bandon Dunes notorious bunkers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz_6MMF92vA

You just dont want to get in them if you can help it. Take it from one who knows. Also if your interested there a plenty of related videos for you viewing pleasure. Like I said ill try not to be a stranger.

Gary

Gary ...........................Thanks for that............really enjoyed it.

Bandon is first on my list of dream golf trips. Hoping to get out there one of these years.

JJ you will love it when you do.i have played all 3 courses and cant wait till next summer when the Old Macdonald course opens up in June of next year. It"s just like being in merry ole Ireland and Scotland up there on the oregon coast. I cant wait to go up there and play the new course.


Gary

One of these days I'll get there, But I'll be sure to open the face on my wedge when I get several in there
Thanks

I like the walking ethic...........no big wide "highways" of concrete marring the course. Most of the new courses here in Colorado are built for the fatcats. Long cart rides between holes and all that GPS nonsense. (I don't believe it speeds up play , but that's another topic.)

I will probably take my wife out there when i go.............any shopping to be had in that area ; or maybe a spa or art gallery ? I will want to play golf for two or three days straight and there's no way she will do THAT !

Hips.......................i was thinking the same thing ! Fer cryin out loud...........open that thing up and give it a thump !!!

Even if you catch it thin it will probably hop out somewhere better than another ball left in the sand. Funny though......but not on the card.

Would like to give thoses courses a go,,,,,

It's been quite a few years since I've even been through Coos Bay, the largest town around. Maybe 10,000 people there and dying with the loss of fishing and logging. So probably not much shopping, but that can be a good thing But I hear rumors that there is a small cafe off the beaten track that has a great spotted owl stew on their menu

The guy that runs GolfNow up here was putting together a package to there. A round on the way down, two rounds there, two nights for around $700. think it was 12/2-5.

In my best Ronald Reagan ........................"Well now honey.....you go on and see the sights down there in Coos Bay , while i play golf with the fellows here. I'll meet you for some more of that spotted owl stew after the round and , maybe tomorrow we'll get to see them cut one of those giant old trees down. Nothing more exciting than watching one of those babies hit the ground."

I was in Coos Bay in the spring of 1976. I had just turned 21 and had embarked on a raping and pillaging trip on the west coast. I was an absolute failure as a rapist , but had to do a small amount of pillaging. Stayed out of jail long enough to hitchhike all the way to the east coast. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh....the summer of 1976..............worked two jobs.........much drinking and debauchery in between. My voice changed from all the drinking and i had a nice sandy "Rod Stewart" kind of thing going. I had girls hanging all over me.........but that was only because they were even drunker than i was. Fun was had ( i was told) , but that summer nearly kilt me.

I moved back to Colorado in the Fall and became a Shaolin Monk....but that's another story.

Did you just visit that new medical clinic near you

Once they got the grounded oil tanker removed from the beach there, they lost their big tourist attraction